Expand your career opportunities with an MS in Systems Engineering. Our flexible, online master's degree program consists of three stackable certificates that can be completed in less than two years. Balance your studies with your personal and professional commitments from anywhere in the world with our entirely online, synchronous program.
As a systems engineer, your primary focus involves defining and harmonizing the objectives of various stakeholders through facilitation, guidance and leadership. You'll blend multiple areas of expertise to create systems solutions that can help meet the needs of popular industries such as aerospace, automotive, biomedical and defense.
Start Dates: Fall, Winter and Spring
Curriculum: 45 Credit hours completed in quarter terms
Program Length: 18-24 Months
Master of Science in Systems Engineering
Your Systems Engineering curriculum includes:
Project management skills
Learn the skills needed to design and balance stakeholders' goals through facilitation, guidance and leadership while integrating multiple disciplines into one collective solution.
Systems application experience
Courses are designed to prepare you for success through relevant and emergent engineering applications, including digital transformation, practical model-based systems engineering and data analytics.
Learning from industry professionals
Enroll in our certificate programs to connect with industry professionals. These programs offer valuable networking opportunities as you advance your current professional path or embark on a new career in systems engineering.
Career growth and leadership
Gain leadership roles for any engineering discipline and elevate your pathway to promotion in your current engineering role.
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Application Information
Fundamentals of Systems Engineering Certificate
This certificate showcases the fundamentals needed for engineering professionals across numerous industries. Through examining collaborative practices like needs assessment, risk analysis, and test planning, students learn how to partner with stakeholders and execute key tasks.
Systems Design and Architecture Certificate
This certificate emphasizes support for proposals after contract awards. It explores the design and architectural aspects of systems engineering through case studies across numerous industries and how to collaborate with others using those aspects.
Systems Engineering Analytical Methods and Practice Certificate
This certificate focuses on practical exposure to the analytical and digital tools necessary within systems engineering, such as applying a working knowledge of probability, statistics and data science. Learn to cleanse complex data sets, visualize patterns in the data and describe characteristics of data sets to extract system performance insights.
Apply machine learning techniques, which are paramount to the digital transformation of advanced systems integration; derive figures of merit required to characterize and to model processes that need improvement, and trace validation and verification test results to system requirements based on statistically relevant quantitative analysis.
Get Started on Your MS in Systems Engineering
Build your career path in Systems Engineering with our flexible fully online program at the University of Denver’s Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science.
